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NEW BLOOMFIELD, PVL., TUESDAY, JULY !), 1878.
NO. 28.
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THE TIMES.
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eledt Poeti'y.
THE POOR FARMER.
Too poor to take a paper,
Too poor to Join the Orange !
8o when the price was rising,
He did not know the change,
And sold his wheat for a dollar
'Twas worth a quarter more,
And now the man ts poorer
Than he had been before.
His neighbor Lookout told him,
This side the market town ,
Ho should bave come In sooner,
While groceries were down.
"But then perhaps 'tis even,
Since corn is on the rise,
And what you gain by waiting,
Will pay for your supplies."
Corn rising J why, I sold it !
The chap who bought my wheat,
Said this year corn was plenty,
Bat mine was hard to beat (
So he paid three shillings
What I everywhere 'tis four t
The difference wonldglve me
A hundred dollars more."
He drew the reins and started,
With spirits sadly down,
And did a heap of thinking
Before he reached the town.
The upshot of the matter
Remains without a doubt,
This year he takes ' Tht Timet,"
And couldn't do without.
A WOMAN'S ADVENTURES.
CONCLUDED.
" rOU must know, mademoiselle,"
1 Via Vipimn. tliat. In Vlormn ruf
- o t
Vare all In the power of the police; they
must have the name, nationality, busi
ness and address of every person who
comes into the city. The morning after
tvour arrival these men came and asked
if two English ladies were stopping
here. I said ' Yes.' They then said they
believed you were persons they had been
trying for two weeks to catch, and that
you were very suspicious characters who
had been stopping here in the Grand
Hotel. I told them it was not possible
that you had come direct from Italy ;
and I mentioned the telegram you had
sent from Triest, and that you had been
I recommended to my courtesy by a gen
tleman whom 1 well knew and who had
many times lodged here. But they
went away, and came back again next
day, making some inquiries about you,
and asking if numbers so and so were
those of you rooms. You were out, and
whether they viBited your rooms or not
I cannot say. This is all that I know.
Now they are here again, and If they
say you must go to the police-court,there
will be no other way but to go."
" But I don't understand. I have mv
passport; there is my bill, receipted at
the hotel in Triest six days ago. I never
knew before it was a crime for two Eng
lish-speaking women to travel alone or
to stop at a Grand Hotel. Of what are
we suspected V And upon what grounds
suspected V'
" Why, a napkin has been seen among
your efl'eets with the mark of the Grand
Hotel upon it."
After a moment's thought it flashed
into my mind that it w as that Nice ser
viette, and, more amused than annoyed,
I exclaimed, " Oh, I have it 'Tia that
serviette St. Cecilia took at Nice ;" and
opening my trunk soon bad it in my
hands, holding it up by two corners for
the men to see and explaining how it
came into my possession.
" It will go very hard with Madame
Cecilia," 'observed the spokesman; "you
will please give n Ler address."
My indiscretion at ouoe became appar
ent, but I was a complete novice in "be
ing arrested." To involve Cecilia in
the aflat r would be but an aggravation
of matters, and I at once decided, come
what might, I would not give the police
her address. Looking at the half-obliterated
stamp in the corner of the napkin
there was unmistakably the mark,
"Grand Hotel," but directly underneath
" Nice," which the police in their ardor
to find me guilty of something which I
could not find out, hud undoubtedly
mistaken for Wien, the German name
for Vienna. I called their attention to
the " Nice," asking what jurisdiction
the Austrian government had over mat
ters relating to hotels in Italy. They
replied by looking very closely at the
stamp, and then one of them took my
passport and the napkin and went out,
leaving the other man to guard our
apartment, and soon returned with a
new arrest for myself and my gesclls
chaftcrin, Miss Barton still refusing to
give her name. The landlord had only
placed mine in the visitors' book, there
by making himself liable to a fine of
eight or ten dollars.
Nothing could have been more widely
different than the effect produced upon
Kate and myself. To me the whole af
fair was inexpressibly mysterious and
ludicrous, notwithstanding the insolence
of the police, and, as it seemed to me,
their amazing stupidity. Foor Kate was
the wrathfullest woman I ever saw,
while her obstinate refusal to answer
any questions about herself only increas
ed the ferocity of the men, whose treat
ment of her was shameful in the ex
treme. They threatened to search our
trunks, which aroused Kate's wrath the
more. I observed that as they had as
sumed the right to unlock and search
mine during my absence, they were
probably already acquainted with its
contents. They, however, abandoned
the searching scheme, and ordered us to
get ready to go to the police-court,which
was about two minutes' walk distant.
Kate declared that to the police-court
she would not go, unless she were drag
ged there by her hair, while the men de
clared that she would then be taken by
armed force. I concluded to telegraph
to the American embassy for help, but
that was denied me. Ilerr Bchwager
had called to see us only the day pre
vious, saying his lodgings were quite in
our neighborhood, but we had not asked
his address. There seemed nothing to
do but to go to the court and be my own
lawyer. It never occurred to me that
the landlord to whose courtesy I had
been recommended would refuse to go
with me; but when I asked him for his
protection he begged to be excused, on
the ground of being very busy and that
he could be of no service to me. I do
not wish any reader to infer from this
that he was an exceptional Viennese hotel-keeper
that is, exceptionally ungen
tlemanly ; he was, on the contrary, a
fair representative both of his trade and
his country-men. Austrian military
officers and diplomatic attaches of the
government 'have won in fashionable
society a reputation for extreme polite
ness and gallantry toward women;
which may be true, as neither under
such conditions costs any earnest sacri
fice. But the rank and file of the mid
dle class of Austrlans, the class with
which travelers have naturally most to
do, are most brusque and ungracious in
manner as well as in deed, unembellish
ed with any hint of courtesy.
, I enjoyed a fling at the landlord by ex
pressing surprise at his refusal to accom
pany me to the police-court, adding ma
liciously that American gentlemen were
not famous for polished manners, but
there was not one mean enough in the
whole country to refuse bis protection
to a lady, a guest under his own roof
and in a strange land, where the help of
friends was denied her. I then appealed
to Kate to go with me, as it would only
end the trouble sooner, and that I would
never allow her to go to such a place
alone, but with tears streaming from
her eyes she resisted my entreaties, and
I followed one of the men to the court ;
the other remained behind to watch
Kate.
I had no more idea of a police-court
than I had of the reason why I was be
ing taken there. It was myBtery and
curiosity that sustained me. I undoubt
edly looked like an amused interrogation-mark,
for the moment I was Intro
duced into the presence of the grand in
terrogator of that inquisition, upon
whose desk lay my passport and "that
serviette," he smiled and remarked In
French, " It is very evident, mademoi
selle, that you have nothing to do with
this affair."
"With what affair, monsieur? I
haven't the faintest Idea what I was
brought here for," I responded.
" Why, Just this ; about a fortnight
ago two English-women stopped at the
Grand Hotel in this city, and left with
out paying their bills, carrying off with
them all the household linen they could
lay their hands on."
And so we had been arrested as house
linen thieves I It was too humiliating.
I was then interviewed as to my com
panion's refusal to give her name etc..
which argued very much against her. I
explained as well as I could the extreme
annoyance and brutal treatment to
which she had been subjected, her hor
ror of having anything to do with a
police-court, and how the disgrace of
being suspected of a crime was aggra
vated by nervous excitemont brought on
by the insolence of the police. After
considerable pleading on my part in her
behalf for I felt that I was the sole
cause of the trouble it was agreed upon
that she should be relieved from coming
to the court upon condition that she
would sign a paper giving her name,
nationality, etc., and I was dismissed
without the slightest apology for the
trouble to which I had been subjected.
At that point the affair ceased to be fun
ny, and, turning back after I had reach
ed the door of exit, I made a short
and as effective a speech as the polite
language of the French would allow, in
which I conveyed a frank idea of my
opinion of Austrian courtesy. I suc
ceeded well enough to convince my ex
aminer of something probably that he
had caught a Tartar and I left him tug
ging furiously at his moustache. My
official escort led the way back to the
hotel with a very crestfallen air, savage
and sullen.
I found Miss Barton in a worse con
dition than ever, the persecutions of the
guarding policeman having continued
with Increased ferocity. He had dogged
every movement she made, until the
poor girl had nearly gone mad ; and it
was only after long persuasion that I in
duced her to sign the paper, such a one
as most travelers without passports in
Austria are obliged to fill out. She final
ly wrote her name in a great sorawl
which nobody could decipher, and gave
as her country "Cape Town, Africa;"
which again confounded the men, as
they had no idea how a " Hottentot"
could be an English subject. But they
swallowed their ignorance, and finally
went away.
When Kate had become restored to
her normal condition she heaped upon
herself all sorts of self-reproaches, and
paid me extravagant compliments for
what she called "good sense" and "pres
ence of mind." As she demanded re
dress for the insults she had suffered,and
as I wished to know by what right an
Austrian policeman privily searched the
trunks of American women who had
the misfortune to come into the Austrian
dominions, we posted off to our respect
ive national ambassadors. Kate had the
satisfaction of being told that she ought
to congratulate herself upon getting off
as. well as she did, since two of her
country-women had been arrested, put
in.jail and kept there for two weeks up
on even less grounds for suspicion. The
result of our complaints was, that the
amplest official apologies were made by
the Foreign Office, the two policemen
severely censured and degraded from
rank, while, through the influence of
Herr Schwager, who went to the presi
dent of the police, an officer was sent
from that organization to apologize to us
in person. But what I cared most for I
never got an acknowledgement of the
right of the police to search baggage a
plaisir
As might have been expected, our
liking for Vienna had been thoroughly
damped. From thut moment Kate
never saw an officer without fear and
trembling, and officers were every where.
" To think," she exclaimed, "that I
have grown to be such a ninny I My
brothers always said, 'Oh, we can trust
Kate to go anywhere ; she never gets
nervous or afraid;' and here I am actu
ally afraid to cross a street t I shall
never have a moment's peaoe until I
get out of this horrid country."
At the end of a fortnight, having en
tirely missed her cousins, she joined a
party of Americans going to England.
Bt. Cecilia meantime had arrived, and
was of course entertained by the napkin
adventure. But she could not abide
Vienna, and quickly returned to Paris.
As 1 wished to "do" the Exposition and
run no more risks of arrest, I decided to
withdraw to Baden, a half hours' ride by
express from the Sudbahn station of the
Austrian capital, as the town was strong
ty recommended by Herr Bchwager and
several American friends residing in Vi
enna. Herr Schwager declared that with
my small stock of dculch qprechen the
Baden lies would cheat me out of my
eyes, and very kindly volunteered to
help me get installed. A history of the
trials attending that transaction would
alone "fill a volume," but I mention
only one, and that simply because it
seemed another link in the manifest
chain of destiny.
An hour after our arrangement for my
accommodation for the season had been
settled"melne Wlrthln" received a letter
from her son-in-law that he was coming
and she informed me that she would
need her guest-chamber for him, return
ing to me my advanced guldens at the
same time she broke her bargain. Noth
ing was to be done but to look elsewhere
and eventually lodgings were obtained
in the Bergstrasse, in quite another part
of the town. The locality was excel
lent, being near the promenade and music-garden
b ; then I liked the face of the
Haimmeinterin, as did Herr Schwager,
who wisely remarked that he thought
kindness of heart should rank high in
that "benighted land."
I frequently wentttfVienna, spending
the day at the Exposition and returning
to Baden in the evening. Upon one of
these occasions I found upon my return
to the Sudbahn that I had a half hour to
wait for the train. As I was hungry, I
ordered a cup of coffee in the cafe waiting-room.
Upon putting my hand in
my pocket for my portmonnale, lo I I
had none, not a kreutzer to ray name,
and my portmonnaie contained also my
return rail-way ticket! I was alone; it
was seven o'clock in the evening. My
situation was dramatic, even comic, and
I laughed to myself and smiled upon a
gentleman and two ladles who sat at the
same table, calmly remarking that I had
been robbed of my Oelltasche ; they
smiled In return, and nothing more. I
sent a kellner to bring me the master of
the cafe whom I informed of my loss
and my Inability to pay my debt to
him. He at once led me off to a com.
misnaire de police of whom there are
always plenty about in civilian's dress
to whom I made a statement of my loss,
describing my lost treasure and where I
thought it had in all probability been
taken. While we were talking a very
distinguished-looking man, perhaps forty-five
years of age, with magnificent
black eyes, passed near, evidently, in.
terested. When through with the po
lice I remarked that I did not know
how I was to get back to Baden ; where
upon the master of the cafe who, by
the way spoke English well exclaimed,
"Oh, as to that, I will lend you what
you need." Hearing this, the distinguished-looking
stranger came up with
a salaam, and, begging the conventional
number of pardons, graciously volun
teered any service he might be able to
render me. I thanked him, explaining
to him in a few words my misfortune,
but that the master of the cafe who
had in the meantime purchased a rail
way ticket for me had gallantly come
to my rescue. At this moment the car
bell rang ; I gave my card to the meiater
took down his name, and hurried away
to get a seat in the train, the owner of
the black eyes following me, helping
me as best he could, and, "if madame
had no objections, would take a seat
near her, as he too was en route for Ba
den." He spoke bn Freuch, with a pure
French accent, although it was evident
he was not a Frenchman. He evinced
a desire to continue an acquaintance so
oddly begun, but I was obliged to doom
him to disappointment. My mind was
occupied with the grave question of
finance, and about how long I should be
obliged to remain in Baden before I
should recieve a remittance from Lou
don. I remembered having seen the
gentleman once or twice in the park at
Baden, and thought him, with his splen
did eyes, graying hair and military bear
ing, a man of no ordinary appearance,
He had the tnrot a person looking for
someone, and the expression was sad.
Under ordinary clreumBtances I should
have been curious to learn more of him.
My coolness of manner, accompanied
by the almost rude brevity of my replies
to his few ventured remarks, seemed to
amuse him, for he smilingly observed
that I was a true "Anglalse."
To be taken for English always arous
ed my honest indignation , and I quickly
retorted, " Pardon, mats jene suls pas
Anglaise."
" Vraiment! but you speak with the
English accent."
" Quite possible, monsieur, as English
Is my mother tongue, but I am a true
Americaine."
"Americaine I Americaine " he re
peated eagerly. " I once knew an
American lady, and I should prize above
all things some knowledge of her. I
hope I may have the honor" A blast
from the engine broke upon his speech
at that juncture ; we were at Baden.
Hastily thanking him for abroad one
falls into the continental habit of thank,
ing people " mille fols," for what they
do not do, as for what they do and say
ing " Bon jour," I hurried off to the
Bergstrasse. The next morning I re
funded my borrowed guldens to the
master of the cafe by post (as I had not
placed my entire bank in my purse,)
and feeling conscience-smitten at hav
ing, in my direst extremity, been be
friended by one of those "dreadful Aus
trian" whom I had so bitterly berated,
I hinted my amazement, along with my
thanks, at having been the recipient of
so graceful and needed a courtesy from a
Viennese. He' acknowledged the re
ceipt of the ioney, adding, " I hope
you do not take me for a Viennese ; I
am a Bavarian, and have lived twelve
years in England."
Among the occupants of the house
and dwellers in the garden where I lodg
ed and lived was a young Austrian wo
man, two years married, with whom I
formed a pleasant acquaintance, and
whose chatty ways rapidly revived my
knowledge of the German, in which
language only she could express herself.
I shall not soon forget her, for she told
me that she married to please the "El
tern" that she "had never loved," and
was so naive in her mode of reasoning
as to prove a source of infinite surprise.
She had no conception of any destiny
for a girl but that of marriage, and nev
er tired of asking about "American
girls," whom I described as oftentimes
living and dying unmarried.
"And do not the parents force them
to marry V And what do they do if not
marry V And when they get old, what
becomes of them V And they are doc
lor even V Did you ever see a woman
doctor V" etc., etc., and hundreds of
similar questions.
One evening, two or three days after
the "robbery," we went to sit in the
park and listen to the music. On the
end of a bench where we sat down was
a poorly-clad, miserable-looking woman,
who occupied herself in dozing and
waking. I had no money iu my pocket
but I could not rid myself of the idea
that the poor wretch was dying of hun
ger, and her sharp contrast to the hun
dreds of elegantly-dressed people all
about her and constantly moving to and
fro only gave more force to her isolation
and misery. At length, perhaps more
to relieve my mind than otherwise, I
begged my Nachbarin to lend me a coin,
which I slipped without a word Into the
creature's hand. To the surprise of both
of us, she made no sign of acceptance or
thanks. Ten or fifteen minutes later
she rose, and coming near us she began
to stammer out her thanks and to tell us
how poor she was that she could not
work, and that for a month she had been
coming to the park, hoping that where
there were so many rich people some
would kindly give her a trifle ; but that
in all that time but one person had done
so a gentleman who had given her a
gulden ; and if we would look she would
point him out. We looked ; it was the
distinguished stranger. I confess to
have been gratified, and to feeling confi
dent that if he was one of the foreigners
that Aunt Edith had bade me beware
of, he was at least a gentleman and a
Christian.
The lost of August was nearing, and,
as the heat was intense, I often went
up a hill at the back of the park to be
alone aud enjoy the breezy atmosphere